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<h3 class="post-title">Groovy Goodness: Simple File Renaming</h3>

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<p>Groovy has a lot of simple useful methods to make every day life easier. In Groovy 1.7.4 we can use the <code>renameTo()</code> method on a <code>File</code> object. We pass a <code>String</code> argument with the new name of the file.</p>
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def file = new File('test.groovy')
file.text = 'simple content'
file.renameTo 'newname.groovy'

def newFile = new File('newname.groovy')
assert newFile.exists()
assert 'simple content' == newFile.text
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